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This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache
API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent
Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem).
Xen tmem provides "hypervisor RAM" as an ephemeral page-oriented
pseudo-RAM store for cleancache pages, shared cleancache pages,
and frontswap pages. Tmem provides enterprise-quality concurrency,
full save/restore and live migration support, compression
and deduplication.
A presentation showing up to 8% faster performance and up to 52%
reduction in sectors read on a kernel compile workload, despite
aggressive in-kernel page reclamation ("self-ballooning") can be
found at:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/presentations/TranscendentMemoryXenSummit2010.pdf
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
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Rename old interface to sched_op_compat and rename sched_op_new to
simply sched_op.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Take the opportunity to comment on the semantics of the PV guest
suspend hypercall arguments.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Allow non-constant hypercall to be called, for privcmd.
[ Impact: make arbitrary hypercalls; needed for privcmd ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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Impact: fix potential oops during app-initiated LDT manipulation
The underlying hypercall has differing argument requirements on 32-
and 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9061E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
hypervisor.h had accumulated a lot of crud, including lots of spurious
#includes. Clean it all up, and go around fixing up everything else
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Drop double underscores from header guards in arch/x86/include. They
are used inconsistently, and are not necessary.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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